The Union of Agricultural Workers’ Committee in Palestine has launched an appeal to carry out global weeks of fasting in solidarity with the people of Gaza between 19-30 may 2025
(May 15, 2025) Since 18 March 2025, the Israeli government imposed a total blockade on Gaza engineering one of the worst famines in recent history. As a result, Gaza’s infrastructure is near total collapse, 93% of population faces acute food insecurity, bringing Gaza to IPC Phase 51– extermination by starvation- the highest level of food insecurity, which indicates widespread death due to starvation, extremely critical acute malnutrition, and collapse of livelihood systems. Bread has disappeared from markets; Palestinians are dying from dehydration and untreated wounds; all bakeries and flour mills have been destroyed; fuel, water, electricity, and medical supplies remain blockaded. As a result of the deliberate actions carried out by the Israeli occupation of Palestine, over two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in famine.
In the current context in which an entire population is suffering from starvation, we call upon the people of the world to join us and carry out, on a date of your choice, a GLOBAL DAY OF FASTING during 19-30 May 2025.
Show your support by Fasting in Solidarity with the People of Gaza and donate the money not spent on food to our emergency anti-starvation fund, or to another organization working on the ground to fight the deliberate use by Israel of starvation as a tool of genocide and to provide food directly to people in Gaza.
Together, we can send a powerful message from every corner of the earth condemning the use by Israel and its accomplices of starvation as a weapon of war.
In addition, lets all unite in street mobilizations, call-in campaigns, strikes, and boycotts until Israel’s assaults on the Palestinian people cease and Gaza borders are opened!
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1Integrated Food Security Phase Classification 5 (IPC Phase 5) indicates famine or humanitarian catastrophe.